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• Creating the National Interstate Highway system that we all depend on today
  
  
• Establishing the basic national defense policies that kept the Cold War cold and prevented nuclear war in the 20th Century
  
  
• Achieving passage of the first two Civil Rights Acts (1957 and 1960) since Reconstruction and guiding the desegregation of the nation’s capital, Washington, DC
  
  
• Forging an armistice that stopped combat in the Korean War
  
  
• Fostering the development of both military reconnais-sance and civilian communications earth orbiting satellites
  
  
• Bringing statehood to Alaska and Hawaii
  
  
• Bringing the St. Lawrence Seaway to completion
  
  
• Legislation that added over 10 million Americans to the Social Security system
  
  
• Creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide civilian leadership in our exploration of space
  
  
• Creating what is now the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in order to greatly improve flying safety through control of all aircraft in our skies
  
  
• Creating the Department of Health Education and Welfare (later split into the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education)